[178494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Feb 27 18:47:57 2015
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Date: 27 Feb 2015 23:32:23 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <54F0E159.2000804@satchell.net>
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In article <54F0E159.2000804@satchell.net> you write:
>One of the FUD items I keep seeing from some factions is that the FCC
>will regulate content on the Internet in the same way as they did for
>television during the time of the "fairness doctrine".
I agree, that's not going to happen.
With the "legal content" rule, I expect some bottom feeding bulk
mailers to sue claiming that their CAN SPAM compliant spam is legal,
therefore the providers can't block it.
R's,
John
